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‖ papier mâché|papje mɑʃe, ˌpæpɪeɪ ˈmæʃeɪ, mɑː-|
Also with hyphen, and with simple a in maché, which is also found variously misspelt.
[a. F. papier paper, mâché chewed, pa. pple. of mâcher:—L. masticāre to chew. (See below.)]
a. A substance consisting of paper-pulp or paper reduced to a pulp (often mixed with other substances), and shaped by moulding; used for boxes, jars, trays, various fancy articles, etc.; finer kinds consist of sheets of paper pasted together. Also fig.
1753Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 262 The ceiling ornamenting with papier-machée. 1758[R. Dossie] Handmaid to Arts iii. iv. §1. 407 Paper..is rarely made the subject of japanning till it is converted into papier machè. 1759Compl. Lett. Writer (ed. 6) 229 A beautiful and exquisitely carved and gilt chariot of papier mashè. 1766T. Martyn Connoisseur No. 91 Some large and elegant Jars and Vases in Papier macheè. 1816P. F. Tingry Varnisher's Guide (ed. 2) xi, Colouring articles made of papier maché. 1818‘T. Brown’ Brighton I. i. 13 He has a clay-cold heart, and a mere papier machè mind. 1879G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 305 Thin sheets of papier-maché. 1920F. M. Ford Let. 24 July (1965) 115 The plaster Pillars of the State and the papier maché hearts of men. 1977Broadcast 7 Feb. 7/2 It's unlikely that he would want to be party to a papier maché exercise.
b. attrib. (usually = made of papier mâché).
1753Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) III. 260 A papier-machée ceiling. 1777Sir A. I. Elton in Burke's Corr. (1844) II. 137 A papier-mâché snuff-box. 1899Daily News 26 June 8/4 The foundry room, wherein the papier-mâché moulds, or matrices, receive the boiling lead and turn out complete castings of pages of type.
[Note. Although composed of French words, the name papier mâché appears not to be of French origin; it is not recognized in the French Dictionaries of the Académie, Littré, or Hatz.-Darm. (except in the sense of ‘chewed paper’, papier mouillé, and figurative uses of this: see Littré). The term is not in the Description des Arts et Métiers..par l' Academie des Sciences of 1761; the Journal de l' Agriculture, du Commerce, etc., of Sept. 1778, cites it from an English source, translating from the Handmaid to Arts of 1758 (see above); so later French works. It seems to be meant as French for ‘mashed paper’. Cf. the instructions for making this substance in Boyle's Uses of Nat. Things iv, ‘First soak a convenient quantity of whitish paper..then mash it in hot water’, etc.] |